The DazzlingNew Masterwork from the Prophet of Silicon Valley
Jaron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the
father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time.
For decades, Lanier has drawn on his expertise and experience as a computer
scientist, musician, and digital media pioneer to predict the revolutionary ways
in which technology is transforming our culture.
Who Owns the Future? is a visionary reckoning with the effects network
technologies have had on our economy. Lanier asserts that the rise of digital
networks led our economy into recession and decimated the middle class. Now, as
technology flattens more and more industries—from media to medicine to
manufacturing—we are facing even greater challenges to employment and personal
wealth.
But there is an alternative to allowing technology to own our future. In this
ambitious and deeply humane book, Lanier charts the path toward a new
information economy that will stabilize the middle class and allow it to grow.
It is time for ordinary people to be rewarded for what they do and share on the
web.
Insightful, original, and provocative, Who Owns the Future? is
necessary reading for everyone who lives a part of their lives online.